Posted on 02/09/2009 9:05:57 AM PST by kristinn
Jim Robinson delivered the following letter to the offices of Senators Arlen Specter, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe this morning.
The Honorable Arlen Specter
711 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Sen. Specter,
On behalf of the several hundred thousand members of FreeRepublic.com, I urge you to vote against cloture and passage of the so-called stimulus bill, or as we call it, the Porkulus Bill.
We appreciate your good faith efforts on improving the bill. However, statements by your Democratic colleagues show that they have no intention of abiding by the compromises negotiated with you. In short, the Democrats are playing you and the American people for suckers.
This bill needs to be stopped. If passed, it will pile so much debt on our citizens, with more indebtedness to come with TARP and the omnibus bill, that they will become slaves to that debt and slaves to government.
As you reflect on your votes today and tomorrow, I ask you to consider what our Founding Fathers would do in this situation. Would they sacrifice and endure short term pain for the good of the Nation, or would they vote to enslave future generations with unsustainable debt for short term gain?
May God save America from its government,
James C. Robinson
Founder and President
FreeRepublic.com
Veteran, United States Navy
FreeRepublic.com
P.O. Box 9771
Fresno, CA 93794
That’s great. Your children got a great lesson in what freedom and representative government were really about.
I am curious though, with all of this so called urgency that this bill has to be passed yesterday, why are we not shouting loud and clear that it is the wrong (on so many levels) approach to fix what ails our economy?
We have historical proof via JFK, Reagan and Bush that is indisputable proof of how to stimulate the economy.
We know what works and it ain't massive government spending us into debt
We used to say that you can't tax and spend your way to prosperity. What happened to our core philosophy?
LOL!
I don’t have a way to verify this but I am hearing that Obama just said there were no earmarks in the Stiumulus plan in a speech he is giving right now.
Great job, Kristinn and Jim! God bless you both, Melanie Morgan and all FReepers (and non-FReeper patriots) who participated in today’s Porkulus protest on Capitol Hill.
Rock on!
I’ve been calling and emailing (will also be faxing). Thanks for the extra delivery of my sentiments.
Well said, sir. Thank you.
Great letter, thanks for sending it out on behalf of all of us.
About all we can do with Sen. SPHINCTER is vote the idiot out after he votes this in.
Anti-Porkulus Bill BTTT
Thank you for doing this! It is very respectful and to the point. I would have wrote a more angry and immature letter “-)
Excellent! keep the pressure on!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thanks again! Just emailed Snowe and Collins...it appears Spector’s website has crashed!
Jim Robinson delivered the following letter...That's what I'm talkin' about...
Could you deliver it to ALL of them???
Good stuff.
I would like to sign my name to that.
The only thing that’s going to catch anyone’s eye is the “hundreds of thousands” part.
As I’ve said a couple times, the way to actually have an impact is to ask Specter and his friends or their aides who handle policy difficult questions on video. That can then be uploaded to Youtube.
A good Youtube video that gets a millions views - and a Drudge link - would have a far greater impact than any letter.
Bumperoo!
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